From Nature Crisis to Solutions: Norway's road to the Nature Deal (seminar 3)
In CeSAM's interdisciplinary seminar series 2024-2025, we tackle big and small questions at the intersection between nature and politics. We take the Norwegian perspective as our starting point and put an interdisciplinary spotlight on Norway's implementation of the nature agreement. All welcome!
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Seminar 3:
Nature and the Law
with Ingunn Elise Myklebust
The first goal in the nature agreement is to give higher priority to nature conservation in all land management, something that is absolutely essential if we are to be able to stop the loss of nature by 2030. 'Bit-by-bit' reduction of land is the biggest threat to nature in Norway, as it is in the rest of the world. At this seminar, professor of jurisprudence, Ingunn Elise Myklebust will elaborate on how knowledge of the interpretation and use of the legislation, and in particular the planning and building act, is important for achieving the goals of the global biodiversity framework, but also how the current system; the rules, the administration and the distribution of roles between state and municipality can make it difficult to reach the goal.
Myklebust offers, among other things, question of whether clearer requirements should be introduced for land accounting, prohibition rules (such as a ban on building on bogs) and/or stronger government management with the municipality's planning through objections and or other forms of government control, in order to get on a safe path in the direction of its nature agreement goal.
Read the op-ed we wrote on the topic here.
NB: This seminar will be held in Norwegian.
